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If you play on the default difficulty, money won't be a problem. But anything higher will have you buying herbs and consumables on a regular basis.

I play on the third difficulty level, and while my financial situation has gradually improved, I wouldn't exactly say that I'm swimming in money. I need to upgrade gear on a regular basis to stay on par with mob levels, and also craft gear. That stuff is pretty expensive.

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Don't think that's it. I played on Blood & Broken Bones (2nd hardest) until level 12 or so, and then switched to Death March for the rest of the game since I was outleveling the main quests way too quickly. There's really no need to spend money on anything except repairs and Gwent cards. There's more than enough food / alcohest around even before you get infinite free healing through the use of Quen alternate.

But fair enough, just goes to show the point about the difficulty of balancing the economy.

You will out level the main quests if you do too many side quests. That's not related to difficulty or the economy.

Of course, they could have made the main quest scale in difficulty according to your level, but the last RPG that did that was Oblivion and it basically broke the game for most people.

Hm, I played on the highest difficulty, as an alchemy spec, but I never had an issue with money. Alcohol is expensive, but you can loot enough Dwarven Spirits on our adventures that you only need to buy it to craft new potions. I never had to buy loot, since the witcher gear is usually good enough. I guess if I spammed bombs, it might be different, but with potions I was fine.

Yeah, I've never been the type to obsessively loot every single container while adventuring, so I was always short on supplies. The economy is probably not optimized for the frugal packrat. :)

Most alchemy specs are broken compared to other builds, from what I've seen.

I'm in the same boat, mostly from weapon repairs. My income is pretty good, but I usually need to repair things after a quest, and the cost of repairing really puts a dent in my accumulated cash.

Playing on the highest difficulty. Had no issues with buying anything I wanted before leaving white orchard (tutorial area).

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